{"id":44388,"date":"2025-11-11T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/44388\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T05:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T05:00:12","slug":"lubbock-air-force-veteran-to-receive-50000-smile-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/44388\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock Air Force veteran to receive $50,000 smile makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A Lubbock veteran will soon receive a new gift that will reshape his smile, helping him reclaim his confidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This year\u2019s Smiles for Soldiers is benefiting a Lubbock Air Force veteran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">51-year-old Kevin Perry has faced lifelong dental challenges, with nearly all of his teeth either missing or broken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In his Smiles for Soldiers application, Kevin explained he has not smiled confidently in decades and often avoids social settings because of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Monday, he learned he will receive a $50,000 smile makeover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s transformative. It\u2019s something much, much bigger than just teeth. It\u2019s self-confidence. It\u2019s self awareness,\u201d Dr. Robert Ioppolo, dentist and veteran, said. \u201cI\u2019ve been told by some of the recipients before that they did not have a job before they got their new smile and that gave them the confidence to go into the work place again and gain full employment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Through the Smiles for Soldiers program, Dr. Ioppolo has provided a full-arch smile restoration for eight veterans since 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A Lubbock veteran will soon receive a new gift that will reshape his smile,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[26006,1980,26004,584,319,66,168,170,169,223,26005,1913,375],"class_list":{"0":"post-44388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-air-force-veteran","9":"tag-dentist","10":"tag-dr-riobert-ioppolo","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-kcbd","13":"tag-local","14":"tag-lubbock","15":"tag-lubbock-headlines","16":"tag-lubbock-news","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-smiles-for-soldiers","19":"tag-veterans","20":"tag-west-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}